It finally died yesterday after spending four agonising days in the Indian forest in Thane near Mumbai.

Vets tried to help the animal (Picture: RAWW

As well as being outraged by the attack itself, animal lovers claim the monkey could have been saved if the Thane Forest Control Room had acted on advice that they would need specialist equipment earlier, DNA reported.

‘We saw fresh wounds on the monkey but since it was still extremely active and agile, it was difficult to rescue it and we immediately told the control room that we needed experts to rescue it,’ Pawan Sharma, president of Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare, said.

It was in terrible pain (Picture: RAWW)

The monkey was eventually rescued when it was so badly hurt it could no longer move.

Pawan Sharma said the forest department should invest in equipment to be able to rescue monkeys.

‘The human-monkey conflict is only set to increase, but no one seems to be taking this seriously at the moment,’ he said.